| WET AND BOGGY AREAS OF YOUR GARDEN By Helen De Bruin For those of you with wet or boggy areas in your garden, here is a list of trees and plants to suit those conditions. Our garden was extremely boggy (full of clay soil) when we first arrived. However, over the years, we have built the soil up by the addition of gypsum (to break down the clay), as well as the addition of quarry soil (normal soil) and mulch (pea straw - which is full of nitrogen, ~ something plants love!) Oh, and over the years we have added old chicken manure (fresh chicken manure is too strong for most plants and will burn them), pig manure and broken down foodstuff. This makes a wonderful nutritious �melting pot� for your plants, and they will quickly gobble it up! TREES: evergreens Callistemon salignus Casurina cunninhamii Casurina glauca Melaleuca quinquenervia Tristania taurina PERENNIALS: winter flag goats beard kangaroo paw spider plant (ground cover) umbrella grass christmas rose hosta iris fledglings begonias |